skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any important paperwork, or valuables you want held secure?

I have some bars of precious metals, and contracts etc.
Yeah they don't have to be super fancy! I would think fit is the #1 thing material sounds easy enough (maybe it's not I'm just intuiting).

I am so depressed with my country (US). this should have been so obvious and we should have used Defense Production Act to scale it up 10 months ago.

It sounds like Biden admin is advocating N95s now hopefully they use legal means to push for it.
I usually avoid commenting on political stuff, but my advice is to please find a better source for information than Scott Adams. He's a smart guy, but he is a strong proponent of "persuasion", i.e. changing people's minds is more valuable to him than presenting the facts accurately. This video is a classic example of his persuasion style, which is to make sloppy claims with flimsy evidence simply to make his opponents spend more time thinking about those claims. I know on HN we can do better than that.

In his own words: https://www.businessinsider.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-...
I thought that sometimes these personalities may overlap. But nevermind.
Yes, the title is clickbait.
and yet they have reliable, cheap, high speed, highly available networks.
Good, then prosecute him for the actual crimes he committed.
Here's a link to the actual study:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.427948v1

I believe most of the vaccines approved or pending approval (Johnson and Johnson) target the spike protein, so I would expect their results to likely (hopefully) be similar.
George Friedman and Peter Zeihan say that it is not clear that China would win a war even just against Japan.

Both countries rely on imported oil. The most likely cause of a war between them is an oil shortage, giving nations an incentive to use their navies to capture oil tankers. The use of navies to capture cargoes of national importance was common for centuries till end of WWII. It ceased after WWII because of US naval dominance combined with the use of free trade as a part of US strategy in the cold war, but of course the cold war is over; so the US, which has been and remains the power least reliant on international trade, could choose not to spill the blood of US sailors to keep the sea lanes open to all.

Japan knows this and has been building a navy that can operate outside the South China sea and in the Indian ocean, so that it can escort oil tankers from the Persian Gulf to Japan. China's navy in contrast cannot operate outside the South China sea, he says.

Friedman says that aircraft carriers benefit a country only if it has admirals that know how to use them and points out that Japan's admirals have been trained by admirals trained by admirals that actually used aircraft carriers in a major war.

The main purpose of the People's Liberation Army is to put down a rebellion by Chinese citizens. The primary goal and concern of the rulers of China beyond their Party's remaining in power is to prevent the country from splitting apart. For most of the 2500-year history of China, it has been divided into multiple polities, and outside powers have played the pieces off against each other.

The US just lost a war against the Taliban, a war it spent many trillions of dollars on, so I doubt the US military worries about whether a loss in a future conflict would signal an end of US hegemony.
One nice thing about newer C++ is that you can write safer(in some sense) functions. To a point. constexpr/consteval functions that are tested at compile time do not have UB and do not interact with global state. This is enforced by the compiler. So building up from this, you get safer systems. One cannot say they are safe though, as it is complicated.

This comes back to is the whole system safe, what do I trust, and how have I mitigated my mistakes(there are always mistakes). No purported safe system will stop me from making logic errors in my conditionals. They will stop an access outside a valid objects or ranges. But C++ also has tools to mitigate this, is a for loop good here or should it be a function that works on a range and is tested properly. Can I enforce my constraints in a type so that the compiler does the work for me.
Yandex Mail [0] is a better choice for this than Gmail. It also asks for a phone number to validate, on sign up. But there's a box you can tick which says something like "I don't have a mobile phone" and then you can validate with a Captcha instead

[0]https://mail.yandex.com
It's a bit masturbatory to call Silicon Valley workers the new gentry. The principles they have seem pretty passive. The gentry can feel good about treating the waitstaff well and not abusing their power (since they generally have little or none), but I think they are best viewed as knowledge workers. They are simply more useful and more scarce to the elites and are treated better, but they would return to labor or the low ranks of the elite if they lost this.

The elites are better characterized as collectively rapacious and amoral rather than individually evil. There can be some individuals of better character.
No, actually I'm referring to groups on the left _and_ right. While popularizing the attacking of shared society and our systems foundations did start with the counter-culture left in the 60s, it has certainly become a bipartisan effort in recent decades.
And also since when did we establish that telomere lengthening equals to age reversal. Cancerous cells could also increase telomere length.
Nodejs doesn't have synchronization primitives, just because you use Promise and assign it to variable "mutex" doesn't make it any more real
I mostly don't see them thanks to additional rules from "Easylist-Cookie List" in my adblocker, so eh.
It would be better if I had the time today to refute this in detail, because it's important that others reading this thread know this assertion is false, but...it's false.
This is very interesting, do you go through it every now and then to remove stale content and dead links?

If I did something like this I just know I'd get into the habit of adding everything I read vs adding things that actually help me achieve what I want to achieve.
Check out Polkadot! All the 'Powerhouse' Players came together to start a semi-trustless system of governance that's pretty interesting.
The launch time changes constantly, as there's no real time provided by SpaceX: everything is an estimate based on road closures and NOTAMs.

If you want to keep track of this launch (and all other launches that happen), I've made a tiny Telegram bot that sends notifications before a launch happens: https://t.me/rocketrybot
Does it matter if they did? At this point, everyone has to assume the CCP has the ability to take complete control of any Chinese company it wants to (see Ant Group). I’m not sure why they even bother with the “monopoly” or “corruption” pretenses at this point.
> Most finished products weren't taxed but raw materials were.

This is kind of a simplistic summary. The tariffs were targeted to ensure certain industries remain solvent in the US so we're not dependent on foreign imports. In some cases, that meant products farther down the manufacturing chain, and in others, closer to the source.

For example, steel was one of "raw materials" we targeted. We might not be so concerned about finished products using steel at the moment (e.g. cars), but we want to ensure we can create tanks and fighter jets in wartime. So you'd expect we would tariff imported steel, but not cars, because the cost of the steel in a modern car (which is more than half its weight) is not that significant compared to the other components.
All allegations against Dominion voting machines were pretty much disproved by subsequent manual vote courting. Again, the machines leave a paper trail that allows manual counting for verification. That makes simple handcounting without any assistance more prone to errors and less paper trail as well.
In mathematics, you need to assert a set of axioms (or preconditions) under which the theorem is held to be true. These axioms can be challenging to figure out; naïve set theory was destroyed by Russel's paradox. Rather famously, the axiom of choice is equivalent (in the sense that assuming one, one can prove the other) with the well-ordering principle, and yet one is "obviously" true and the other is "obviously" false.

Euclid proved a lot of statements in geometry using several axioms, but the last one was clunky and seemed to be something that ought to be a theorem instead: this held that, given a line and a point not on that line, there was exactly one other line that was parallel to the first line passing through said point. Eventually, though, it was found that there was a reasonable interpretation of geometry where that axiom is not true, whence spherical geometry (parallel lines do not exist) and hyperbolic geometry (many lines can pass through that point and remain parallel).

Another example is in physics: the Crystallographic Restriction Theorem mathematically restricts the kind of forms that crystals could form in. And yet, in the 1980s, several crystals were demonstrated which had five-fold symmetry, which is forbidden by that theorem. The issue is that theorem presupposes that crystals need to be symmetric under linear translations, but there exist forced tilings that have rotational symmetry but not translational symmetry--and these can have five-fold symmetry. (We now call these quasicrystals).

In CS, "unsafe code" amounts to code where programmers did not assert all of the possible preconditions to their code. In contrast to much of mathematics, failing to assert all of the preconditions for safety is remarkably easy in some languages, chiefly C/C++.
Sure, but on the other hand I used to travel abroad four or five times a year, inside the US every month or so and my checking account wouldn't even feel the strain.

I don't think that many people stay in San Francisco for the quality of life.
Ask HN: What's the Replacement for Legacy Media?
I'm probably going to fail at conveying this idea, but I really need some guidance, so please bear with me.

If you consider across history, and redefine all "social mediums" as "social media", we have by far one of the most decentralized social systems available. However, the systems I see online are inadequate to capture the full scope of the idea.

We're now at a place where we don't need someone telling us about a bombing: we can see the video that some guy who caught it on the ground had randomly uploaded.

When I look at things like NYT/Reuters, I see a conventional "blog": paid specialists writing eloquent depictions of what happened. If I look at Facebook/Twitter, I see algorithmically tailored feeds of what people want, but precisely as people see it.

Is it possible to converge the two? If so, what kind of framework would you expect to see? And, from a critical mass standpoint, how do we make it the Wikipedia of social media?
The provider here is the one developing the plane though - harbour air isn't building a plane to sell to other operators, they're the one operating the flights. If they really want to drive costs down, they must have decided this is a good way to do it.

But yeah, I think they're mostly selling the image here. Being able to fly to Whistler in half the time of driving and tell the people you're meeting there that you took the greener method is worth a lot to some people (and that's a good thing)
Imagine writing code for an elevator. If there is a glitch in your code such that when the date changes from 1999 to 2000 it'll release all the ropes... that'd cause bunch of people to die. Something like this is exceptionally unlikely, but if you're writing code for a real life device you should always always think about its implications.

Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

This Radiotherapy machine had a software bug which caused 6 people to be given massive radiation overdose.
The better way is for nobody to have direct write access to the database, but instead for automated tools to do things like that, using reviewed code and config and writing an audit log of actions taken. The trust thing is part of the reason this is a good idea, but it's mostly a good idea to avoid good-faith accidents. I think it is common for companies that haven't yet had time to build those automated tools to delegate their work to senior, very trusted, engineers. But that's not a good solution, it's just more expedient, and a bit better than the database being world-writable, which is a bad solution.
It’s not fair to write off all criticisms of the blockchain as privilege. The issue isn’t privilege. The issue is that folks who don’t have access to financial services deserve access to financial services and blockchain doesn’t get them that. It gets them a “ruined fresco” [1] of that. A crap approximation if you squint, but if you zoom in all the details are wrong.

Intermediaries are a massive optimization and solve a ton of problems. Pushing a world without them onto these disadvantaged folks, in a very real way, locks them into a second tier moving forward.

[1] https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/2-phot...
Did you ever develop a crush on someone you never really interact with, and who had no positive impact in your life? Perhaps someone who has had a less-than-positive impact?

You don't know the person that well.
Straight up awesome work. Love this! Thank you.
These links cover one person's research, the same person as the parent article, via press releases seeking controversy and attention for his commercial work.

His work doesn't appear to have been desk-drawered or self-censored.
Ever seen a 3D printer in operation?

3D printers use a "language" called gcode. It's not really programming, it's a series of commands that tell the 3D printer nozzle to move to a certain location at a certain speed while extruding at a certain rate. There are a lot of ways you can mess that up, you can tell the nozzle to go as low as it can and just start extruding, giving you a big blob on the bottom of your 3D printer. You can tell it to move to a position that it physically can't, outside of the bounding box it can print in. Most 3D printers don't have endstops to prevent you from going too high on an axis, so they'll try to do that and tear themselves apart. You can try to extrude while your extruder isn't up to heat and grind down your filament. You can physically jam your extruder into whatever it is you're printing. There are all kinds of things that 3D printers are physically capable of doing that are unsafe.

Computers are just a machine like a 3D printer. You're "physically" moving bytes of data around (that's where most of the heat comes from), doing operations on them, etc. Nowadays you generally can't get them to destroy themselves but in the earlier history you absolutely could tell the machines to tear themselves apart in the same way you can tell a 3D printer to tear itself apart.

Computers are just machines for moving bytes around, and it's really hard to make a machine that you can only do safe stuff with.
Why is this not automated?
I wonder if they have an aggregate comparison of warm vs cold cities. I'd still consider NYC on the warmer side (with the gulf stream on the coast) when comparing it to the midwest or even Albany. For example, even going from Pittsburgh to Connecticut can be an increase of 20 degrees due to the gulf stream even though you are going slightly north.
the descriptions is no surprise, but the names is. player.get_inventory Id think would have enough to get going. https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaControl.html#LuaContr... did you hit a dead end there?
I'm paranoid and tell people to print out data they can't backup and put it in a safe. I've always had some essential data printed out put in a fireproof safe :-) But yes Google is bad at this.

If you have critical data that can cost your company that you can't backup, your're living a risky life. Hopefully they've checked with their colleagues that those agree with living that risky life.
Braille is simpler, and does not require thousands of lines of code, which could obscure all sorts of malicious payload.

I have a bridge to sell to anyone who thinks Dominion has actually audited any of these external dependencies.
I’ve read some of them. No one is necessary lying, but
most of the testimony is of the format “I think I saw somebody acting in a way that I felt was incompetent or malicious, even thought I was an outsider with little knowledge of the process” or “I witnessed abuse regarding over- or undercounting of votes” — claims which were later easily disproven by the hand counts.

I see no reason why all of them can’t be wrong (not necessarily intentionally lying).
When programmers call code unsafe, what they mean is the code can be unpredictable, and unpredictability leads to unintentional behaviors, which are generally bad since good behaviors are intentional.
Code can be unpredictable because it's not written in a vacuum. Not only does code exist within the context of other code, it exists within the context of a compiler or interpreter, possibly a runtime, an operating system and firmware, a CPU architecture and memory and disk and networking and, of course, user input. All of these things make for an incredibly complex system, and incredibly complex systems produce emergent behaviors. So it is very difficult to work within such a system and add behaviors to it without creating unintended consequences. This is especially true the more complex the interactions of the components of the system, and c/c++ allow for very complex interactions.
There's more to it than that of course, but I think that's what underlies most of it.
"Peer review" is not a suicide pact. In the middle of a pandemic, where days matter, you publish information as you get it, and act with that understanding.
Already struggling to get up even for regular work

> But maybe the last thing you feel like doing before work is more work.

- read my mind
This post is prompting me to ask the HN community: do you have a camera/mic setup that you recommend?
Show HN: FiniteCurve – Draw a photo with one continuous, non-intersecting line
Is a sitkack score a thing or am I missing out on a joke?
You can do both. For example, let's say you start organizing by project. Pretty soon, there's overlap between projects and you end up re-documenting. So you can abstract the information into a more general framework and reference it within the project files.

This has additional benefits for efficiency, (DRY) and also usually gives you a result which is generally easier to share with the public, if for example your project file is too personal or too deep for easy reading all by itself.
And they have an extra burden: Dominion will probably be ruled to be a public figure, meaning that they will also need to prove that either Giuliani knew the statements were false or he showed "reckless disregard of the truth". But I think they should be able to do that.
The section you quoted defines exactly what it means by product definition - and the entire thing is a definition of value proposition canvas. If you can't understand the meaning of these things when they're clearly defined then I don't know how to help you.
The Machine Learning Practitioner's Guide to Reinforcement Learning
What Happens If We Lose Google and Facebook in Australia – News Break
Yes, I search through it with https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind and if I see a stale link or outdated note (my mind changed, or it was incorrect), I change it.
The article states that at one point in time, at a voluntary hearing in Michigan, Dominion CEO said "It is technologically impossible to see votes being counted in real-time or to flip them". I think that everybody here is fairly technically inclined so what are your guys thoughts on this? My personal opinion is that using the term "technologically impossible" in this instance was not a good idea.

If @antirez is reading this, would love if you could provide any useful insights. FYI, I ask becuase of your background in research and development of "TCP Idle Scan" back in '98.
Electric planes will be one of the major drivers of reducing emissions, we all need them as soon as possible!
> Well imagine all of your news sources downplay covid and even when you get it yourself it's not as bad as the hysteria led you to believe - just some mild flulike symptoms and loss of smell and taste. You start to mistrust all of the zealots...

If you'd rather believe Fox News than scientists who are telling you this is much worse than the flu, then while you might not be a bad person, you've earned my mistrust.

You can drop your mask if you want, but you can't really blame the OP for not trusting you.
Simplest example I can think of:

Your maths function takes a variable and divides by that variable. What happens if that variable is set to zero?
Laws against defamation chill defamation.
Branch Peephole Optimizer
I think there's a helicopter around so it's really hard to judge
HN should create 4 categories for posts(technical, political, non-technical & non-political, misc -- or something similar), then simultaneously display the top 10 for each category on the "New" page.
They also demand better schools and have kids who largely end up being educated and are anchored to the region.
CDN is by all means considered "serverless". Yes in anything that is "serverless" there's a server somewhere but you don't have to maintain it, you get charged by usage only so no running cost. Now their claim about being deplatform resistant is probably not true though as someone is running that CDN and can just as easily deplatform you. But serverless in the ops community does not mean literally no server is running.

For instance Lambda must have a server running these tasks, it mean it is not of your concern and you don't pay for a long running process.
Heh. Remember back in the day when pacemakers were being hacked remotely because admin passwords weren't even changed from the default, on top of outdated wireless protocols? Oh right that's today!

Hardware makers often aren't good at software, not to mention software updates. And even that gets wonky, like when Microsoft update got hijacked.

Point is, if we can't get IoT 100% right, or even 90% right, how can we trust IoT with physical interfaces into our bodies? That's the problem. And then what happens if the company who made your implant goes out of business? What do you do when those updates stop? Look at cellphones, supporting a cellphone for 2 years is too much for most hardware makers, they rather never update it.

Point is, even if the tech is 100% possible, we're way too far from business setups that allow for this to happen.
The concept is similar. But Apple only provides this feature on sites that impliment "Sign in with Apple". Firefox Relay allows you to create these relays on the fly, ad-hoc to put into any email field on the web (like sign up for my newsletter fields).
The opportunities to make off the books money are far more limited for a state university football coach (who doesn't really have much influence over things) than for a legislator or high level administrator so the state has to make it up in above the table compensation.
→ Sam Keen - Your Mythic Journey - Finding Meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling

→→ Idries Shah - Learning how to learn - psychology and spirituality in the Sufi way

→→→ Marc Lewis - The Biology of Desire - Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

And always fiction mixed with non-fiction, recently Tess Gerritsen, currently Zygmunt Miłoszewski (his books are in Polish only, I believe).

Regarding frequency, it depends, only 26 in 2020, 40 in 2019.